Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-22
INTERESTING READING.

A Baltimore reporter who refused to
nation has just been released on a man
damus after II days imprisonment. 1t
Is the first vacation he has had for some
time and he appreciated it.
A ring tail monkey from Providence
dime museum got loose and entered a
church in that place, Sunday, Just be-
fore services, and after fruitless efforts
to capture him he was decoyed b ok to
captivity by the use of cakes and candy.
On Monday, at her country home in
Wethersield, Mrs. Elizabeth Buck, who
was born near the spot whore she now
resides, January 10, 1884, completed her
103d year. On account of her weak
physical condition, compelling her to
keep er bed, there was no formal cele
bratioh of the wonderful event.
A new revolver has been patented
which is expected to be les liable to be
accidentally discharged than any of its
predecessors. Its main fe ,ture is con.
cealed hammer, enclosed in the lock
frame, which cannot be unintentionally
manipulated, and the trigger is so ar
ranged that it cannot be pulled unless a
safety lever in the rear Of the lock frame
is first pressed.
Recent observations are said to indi>
cate the existence Of a submarine vol
canic crater between the Canary Islands
and the coast of Portugal. F,om ca-
BILE laying steamer in latitude 80 de-
grees 25 minutes north, longitude 9 de-
grees 81 minutes west. the water was
found to measure /, 300 fathoms under
the bow and 800 fathoms under the
stern, showing the ship to be over the
edge of deep depression in the ocean
bottom. 1t is well known that great
inequalities are found in the bed of the
sea of Lisbon. and these are thought to
be due to submarine chain of mount
aims.
Italian papers relate wonderful stories
of the Luigi Grazziotin ''il re del chol-
era" (the King of Cholera), who has just
arrived in Rome, after a weary pilgrims
age on foot, and submitted to the King
and the Venetian Deputies-his country
men-his nfallible remedy against chol
era. Grazziotin has earned his curious
title by his unselfish devotion to cholera
patients having accompanied the plague
during its progress from Egypt to Spain
and Italy, and fought it everywhere sue
cessfully-so the story goes-wlth his
"clixir," compound as mysterious and
infallble as Succi's. Grazziotin is said
to have slept in the same bed with chol-
era patients, aud to possess nunberless
medical and municipal Testimonials cor
roborating his wonderful cures. The
papers say that ''il re d'Italia" has re-
ceived I'll re del cholera" in very graz
cious manner, and promised to interest
the scientific world in his discovery.
Mrs. Folsom has been making her
round Of first calls with Mrs. Lamont,
and is now quite we'll known to the
society W, rid. At one house where they
called on one of the first days that Mrs.
Folsom was out, Mrs. Folsom's name was
not distinctly announced, and the COM
pany had no idea that Mrs. Lannon'S
friend was Mrs. Cleveland's mother, All
the attention was paid to Mrs. lamont
and an assistant was kindly talking
about the weather to Mrs. Folsom. Some
other ladies entered, and in introducing
the group present the assistant said
blandly to Mrs. Lamont: II did not
catch your friends name" "Mrs. Fol-
son." said Mrs. Lamont, quietly. There
was a seconds awful silence, and then
all began to make the most of the op-
portunity left them.